Chapter 69: Loyalty only to myself
"...let's give this damn immortal Hell!" Wang Xi, the leader of the Clan, spoke with a furious voice that resonated with battle intent, greatly inspiring the elders beside him. Without wasting any time, he extended his hand and pointed at Chen Wei, who was advancing.
"Mortal Killer Move - Water of Celestial Judgment!"
The Clan leader didn't waste time and quickly used one of his Killer Moves, equivalent to rank 3 strength, which took the form of a powerful jet of water advancing to test Chen Wei's defensive capability.
"Look, it's the Clan leader's attack!"
"The elders are with him too!"
"Heavens, we are saved!"
Quickly seeing the Clan leader's Killer Move advancing magnificently through the skies above the front line, ignoring all enemies in its path, directly towards Chen Wei...
"Child's play..." Chen Wei said as he saw the attack approaching him at high speed, but he had no intention of dodging it, an attack that would make the heart of any normal gu master tremble with fear.
As expected, it didn't take long for the attack not only to reach Chen Wei but to collide with him. However, to everyone's surprise, instead of resisting with his defense, his body was quickly destroyed, turning into nothing more than blood.
"What!?...how can it be?" Wang Xi said with a shocked expression, unable to believe that the immortal could die with just one Killer Move from him.
But even before the gu masters on the ground could start praising the Clan leader's strength for killing the immortal in one attack, the water from the Killer Move, which had created a path from Wang Xi to Chen Wei, turned into pure scarlet red in an instant.
"Damn it!" the Clan leader shouted, trying to get rid of the water that had now turned into blood. His heart went into deep shock as he realized he had lost all control over the Killer Move.
"Be careful, Clan leader!" But he was quickly pulled out of his shock by Xia Li, one of the most loyal elders, who advanced in front of him while shouting.
In less than a moment, the Clan leader understood the reason for the desperation of the muscular strength path elder when he saw two swords protruding from the elder's back right in front of him.
"Mortal Killer Move - Myriad Tigers Strength!"
"Argh!!!" Xia Li roared in anger as his muscles expanded to an incredible size, and various tiger beast phantoms roared furiously while he relentlessly tried to strike the young man who had stabbed him.
But to everyone's surprise, Xia Li, renowned for his combat ability, didn't land a single blow on Chen Wei, and soon after, he collapsed, dead on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
"It's been a while since we last met, hasn't it, father-in-law... and the same goes for you, grandfather," Chen Wei said in a calm voice, ignoring the dead elder on the ground and focusing on the shocked elders.
He didn't blame the elders for being extremely shocked by what had just happened, as his past self would have reacted the same way if someone had suddenly invaded the Clan and killed one of the strongest elders as if it were nothing.
But for him now, it was very simple. When the Water Path Killer Move from the Clan leader approached, he quickly used the Rank 3 Become Blood Gu to turn completely into blood, making him invulnerable to physical attacks but also losing the ability to attack.
Thus, he was hit by the Clan leader's Killer Move, and although he spread out in the form of blood, he didn't suffer any injuries. He then immediately used Rank 3 Blood Corruption, turning the water from Wang Xi's Killer Move into blood.
But it wasn't just turning into blood; this gu also corrupted the blood, making anything hit by it completely lose control from the gu master who originally controlled it after turning into blood.
To crown it all, Chen Wei, in his blood form, mingled with the blood that was once water and used Rank 3 Blood Circulation Gu to move quickly within the blood, appearing in front of the Clan leader in an instant while taking his original form again after stopping using the Become Blood Gu.
Of course, due to Xia Li's fearless advance, he couldn't kill the Clan leader, but Chen Wei didn't leave empty-handed. After stabbing the cardiac artery and combining it with the Rank 4 Deadly Bleeding Gu, he quickly killed one of the Clan's strongest combat elders.
"You damned traitor, I will make you pay for your sins...!" Shu Yang, the greatest rival of his grandfather and someone who harbored great enmity against him, declared authoritatively.
"Mortal Killer Move - Ancient Furious Storm!"
In just an instant, the clear and sunny sky was taken over by black water clouds as a furious storm began, with raindrops falling at speeds too fast for a simple mortal to follow and with the force capable of easily killing a Rank 1 gu master. The most terrifying aspect was that thousands of these raindrops fell simultaneously.
"Good luck with that..." Chen Wei said as he created a blood spear and launched it at Shu Yang. Right after throwing the spear, he took the form of blood using the Become Blood Gu.
"Don't even think about running, you bastard!" Shu Yang shouted in rage as he dodged the blood spear, but at the same moment, he was shocked when Chen Wei emerged from the blood spear, holding the blood spear in his hand.
"And why would I run...?" Chen Wei wasted no time and, with a fluid and precise surgical move, struck Shu Yang's spinal column while using Rank 3 Draw Blood Gu, causing all of Shu Yang's blood to be absorbed by the blood spear.
"Mortal Killer Move - Desolate Sea Hydra!"
Chen Wei, who had just killed Shu Yang, didn't have a moment to rest when a three-headed water hydra began attacking him furiously.
"Quickly, use this opportunity to prepare your killer moves!" Wang Su said with a determined look on his face, confident that his Killer Move would hold Chen Wei off for a long time.
This is because the Killer Move, which is the greatest creation of his life, replicates the ability of a water hydra that only dies when all its heads are cut off, but each individually cut head regenerates into two after some time.
"Excellent work...!" Wang Xi said as he prepared his own powerful Killer Move, which took a long time to activate. He saw several other elders doing the same.
"Chen Wei, who would have thought it's realy you... I will bring you to justice for your crimes against the clan---!" Wang Su was interrupted in mid-sentence when he felt a hand pierce his chest as he was attacked from behind.
"It's about time they arrived..." Chen Wei murmured as he saw the water hydra collapsing after Wang Su was killed by a surprise attack from a blood creature.
"Damn it! I was forgetting--!" Wang Xi exclaimed in shock at the appearance of the blood creature. But before he could do anything about the one that killed Wang Su, he felt another creature approaching to attack him.
*cough* *cough* "Wretched creature..." Wang Xi mutters weakly while trying to escape from the blood creature's pursuit. Simultaneously, he tries to stop coughing up blood due to internal injuries sustained from having to stop a Killer move midway.
"Mortal Killer Move - Octopus of Heavenly Depths!"
Mortal Killer Move - Torment Iron Chains
Of course, others weren't interrupted in their killer moves, which results in Chen Wei witnessing Mo Qiang, the Academy Hall Elder, transforming into a gigantic purple octopus that attacks Chen Wei with its tentacles.
At the same time, Li Gang, the Commerce Hall Elder, controls thick metal chains that make their way towards Chen Wei, aiming to restrain him so others can attack indiscriminately.
"Transformation path... unfortunately, it has a great weakness against blood..." Chen Wei murmurs as the octopus tentacles quickly reach him and start squeezing his body, which soon explodes in blood.
But this is not good news for Mo Qiang, as Chen Wei easily enters his bloodstream using Become Blood Gu and Blood Circulation Gu.
"Don't be fooled, he must have done the same trick as befo--Argh!!" Mo Qiang, who was warning about Chen Wei's tricks, starts screaming in pain.
"Do you need healing?!" Li Ming, the Healing Hall Elder, says while already starting to heal Mo Qiang. But before he could say more, the octopus does something that shocks him immensely.
With all its strength and might, the octopus uses its tentacles to crush the old Li Ming, who, despite having some defenses as a healer of the water path, had no chance to resist Mo Qiang's strength, being killed in an instant.
"Mo Qiang, what the hell was that?!?!" Li Guan shouts loudly while also dodging the tentacles coming at him as Mo Qiang is controlled by the rank 3 Blood Puppet Gu.
But suddenly, Mo Qiang's tentacles stop pursuing Li Guan before the giant octopus falls face-first to the ground while the temperature around its body starts increasing enormously.
"Shit, this must be Chen Wei's doing!" As Li Guan speaks, the giant octopus explodes into a pool of boiling blood that submerges Li Guan.
"Argh!! Argh!!" Chen Wei, emerging from a pool of boiling blood, looks at Li Guan writhing on the ground from his burns.
Mortal Killer Move - Heaven-Piercing Blood
Chen Wei, in an attack, puts the elder out of his misery before doing the same to two more elders who find themselves in precarious situations, being attacked simultaneously by various rank 3 blood creatures. These elders are Zhang Ning, the Diplomacy Hall Elder, and Peng Du, the Training Hall Elder.
"Even without using much Killer moves, the result wasn't much different from before..." Chen Wei looks at the bodies of more elders killed by the rank 4 blood creatures before turning his gaze to the clan leader, desperately fighting against two rank 4 blood creatures and several rank 3 ones.
Mortal Killer Move - Bloody Sword Killer Cut
Chen Wei uses the rank 4 version of the first killer move he developed, which by now is much better than it was in the past, to decapitate the clan leader who was barely holding on while resisting the attack of the various blood creatures. The leader had no chance of defending himself.
"...are you planning to continue doing nothing?" Chen Wei says while looking at Chen Wang, whose body is covered in deep wounds like the other elders.
"Are you the Chen Wei I know..?" Chen Wang asks with a distressed expression on his face, struggling to stay on his feet due to the injuries caused by the blood creatures that have now stopped attacking him.
"I am..." Chen Wei replies, walking slowly towards Chen Wang.
"Then what are you doing?! Have you gone mad?! Why did you do this?!" Chen Wang shouts with absolute rage, a level of anger he had never shown before in his life.
"To refine an immortal gu..." Chen Wei says in a calm and low voice, almost whispering, with a empty expression on his face.
"For a damn gu!! You betrayed your family and massacred your clan for a mere gu!!" Chen Wang screams, his rage reaching its peak as he launches various attacks at Chen Wei, who easily deflects or defends against them.
"What sin did I commit against the heavens to deserve a descendant like this?!"
"If only I had known, I would have taken your life right after your birth, you ungrateful trai---" But Chen Wang never finishes his words as Chen Wei, moving much faster than Chen Wang can follow, advances and cuts him in half with a short, smooth, but extremely powerful and lethal strike.
"Unfortunately for you, you didn't know..." Chen Wei says right after killing his grandfather, his expression empty, showing nothing more.
He then continues to walk calmly towards a specific place among the debris, followed by various rank 3 blood creatures, two of which are carrying the bodies of Chen Wang and Wang Xi.
"Father..." Chen Wei murmurs while looking at the dead body of the person he came to find among the debris. Using his Rank 4 Blood Demon Eyes Gu, he can easily see the blood of those closely related to him.
"Ahh... let's go." Chen Wei continues his path, now heading to his family mansion while a third blood creature carries his father's body.
As Chen Wei walks, he hears the sounds of screams and fights as the massacre spreads throughout the clan, with the tide of blood creatures attacking non-stop. Any Gu Master who sees him on the street doesn't even bother to do anything, as they are all trying to save their own lives.
"Probably this is the reason why this part was added to the refinement..." Chen Wei says while looking at the blood-soaked streets leading to his family mansion.
Some of the dead he vaguely recognizes, but most can't be fully seen to be identified. He almost never sees anyone alive since, after the deaths of the elders and the clan leader and the breaking of the front lines, everyone is just trying to hide while running for their lives.
And what Chen Wei refers to as the "reason" for all this is a Gu that has been automatically refining itself in his chest since he attacked the Feng Zhi clan, but which he only noticed now during the attack on the He An clan, especially after he killed Chen Wang.
"Home sweet home..." Chen Wei says as he sees his family mansion, which he promptly enters.
"Stop right there!"
"Wait, young master Chen, is this yo--!"
The guards at the gate don't even have time to recognize Chen Wei's identity before they find themselves dead, lying in a pool of their own blood.
Chen Wei calmly walks through the corridors of the mansion, heading towards an ordinary wall. Without hesitation, he swiftly cuts the wall in half, opening a passage to a secret room.
"Please! You can take all the Gu, just don't harm us---! My little Wei!" Ci Ling, who was screaming in desperation, thinking that some raider had found the hidden room in the Chen family mansion, now screams in joy.
"Big brother, I was so scared!" Chen Hua, who was hiding in a corner of the room, runs to Chen Wei and hugs him happily.
"For heaven's sake, where have you been and where are father and grandfather? Don't tell me--" But she never finishes her words, as the next moment her world turns completely black, her life ending abruptly.
"I'm sorry..." Chen Wei murmurs, looking at the bodies of the two on the floor, ensuring he gave them the most painless death possible.
As Chen Wei tries to calm his emotions, he feels a new rank 1 Gu having finished forming in his aperture, taking the shape of a beautiful and exuberant butterfly. This is the Loyalty Gu.
This might seem like a joke of fate after the acts he committed, but Chen Wei fully understands why this is the Loyalty Gu, being the reason he chose to betray others, becoming loyal only to himself, so if given to others it would become the Betrayal Gu.
"As I expected, this is the reason for this part of the refinement..." Chen Wei says while seeing the Loyalty Gu shining with a blinding white light as it merges with his immortal Gu, which was only one step away from being complete.
"Argh!" Chen Wei is forced to kneel on the ground, clenching his teeth to endure the pain that arises again, though this time it's much less intense than before, yet still not something for the faint-hearted.
"Ahh... ahh... it's done, the refinement is complete," Chen Wei says, almost whispering, as his eyes now see a completely new world. "...to the world... Blood Sacrifice Gu!"
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